Cigar-wrapping mechanism.



G. ANDERSON.

WAR. WRAPPING MECHANISM.

APPLICAHON FILED NOV.2I,191I.

Patented May 28, 1918.

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eusrav ANDERSON, or BROOKLYN, NEW roan, ASSIGNOR ro mrnnnarronar. CIGAR MACHINERY comrm, or NEW YORK, n. Y., A conronarron or NEW JERSEY.

CIGAR-WRAPPING MECHANISM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 21, 1917. Serial No. 203,087.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, GUSTAV ANDERSON, a

Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cigar -Wrapp1ng Mechanisms, of which the followmg 1s a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in cigar wrapping mechanisms.

In cigar wrapping mechanisms of a certain type heretofore in common use, considerable difliculty has been experienced in.

controlling the flag of the wrapper after it has been pulled away from the wrapper support-and before It is completely wound about the head of a cigar bunch, for the reason that the soft and delicate tobacco leaf is likely to wrinkle, and when this oc-' curs the head of the bunch presents a more or less unsightly appearance. Many dev1 oes have been constructed with the end in View of overcoming this difiiculty and have been Such devices, however, are more or less complicated and do not,.;;,-always function as mtended.- The main object of the present invention is the productipn of a very simple dev ce for controlling the flag of the wrapper ust before it is, wound about the head of the c1gar bunch; Another object is the productionpf a device ofthe general character above 1ndicated rimwhich" the paste applied to the wrapp'er'Ffor, thepurpose of causing it to adhere tonth. cigar bunch head is made use of in controlling the wrappenflag. With these and otherobjects not specifically mentioned in view, the invention consists in cer- I tainconstructions, combinations and parts which will be hereinafter fully described .andthen specifically set forth in; the claims hereunto appended.

' In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification and m which like characters of reference indicate the same or like parts, Figure 1 is an end elevation, partly in section, of a device constructed inaccordance with .the invention and showing the flag of the wrapper still held to the wrapper support by the suction established therein- Fig. V2 is a similar v1ew showing the flag o the wrapper after it has been transferred or blown down upon the tension plate; and Fig. 3 is a plan v ew of port and the bunch rolling art and therefore needing no further de-' scription herein. There is also provided a wrapper support provided with means for Patented May 28, 1918.

holding a wrapper in outstretched condition thereon. As shown, this wrapper support is a suction wrapper support marked 5. This support has an internal suction chamber 6 which is in communication with the exterior of the lower or operating surface of the support through a series of perforations marked 7. The suction is established in the chamber 6 by suitable mechanism connected with a sleeve 8 which is also in communication with said chamber. The wrapper support and the mechanism for establishing suction the chamber 6-are well known in the art, "and further description thereof is not needed herein.

There is further provided a tension plate.

9 of a type generally well known in the art. This tension plate has a movement by means of which it is brought into the position shown in Fig. 3, partly overhanging a cigar bunch in the bunch rolling mechanism. This tension plate operating mechanism is old and well known in the art, and description and: illustration of it is not needed herein. Thetension plate, however,

difiers from ithe earlier-tension plates in one respect; that is to say, the end adjacentthe headof a cigar bunch in. the bunch rolling mechanism is curved downwardly at 10 and; extends approximately to the axis ofsaid bunch.' The purpose of this downwardly curved end is to provide a surface over hunch.

it is completely wound about the head of a' which a wrapper flag may be dragged until It'will be understoodthat the wrapper is held by suction inoutspread condition upon the operating surface of the wrapper support 5 throughout the greater part of therelative crossing movement of said sup- .mechanism whereby the wrapper is delivered from the themechanism by means of which this re1aiii tire crossing increment is produced is oid and weil known in the art-,und description and illustration thereof is omitted from this specification because it, as weil as the other mechanisms referred to,-iie wjoliy outside the scope of the present inrention. Near the end oi the wrapper delivering movement,

The pipe 11 opens in the chamber 6, and

any suitabie air blast, mechanism not shown ma be employed for the purpose of creating an air blast through the pipe 11 in the chamber 6 at a predeterinined time, which will vary in difierent constructions because the wrapper support itself varies in form in aceorduncewith the shape of acigar hunch to be wrapped; but it will always come into operation near the end of the wrapper delivering nioreinent ondnt the time when the flag of the wrapper isto he rcieased from the wrapper support.

The arrows in Fig. 1 indicate the direction the air takes when the suction in the chamber-'6 is on; while the arrows in Fig. 2 show the direction the air takes when the blast is on and the suction or pertiel vacuum in the chamber 6 has been eliminated and air pressure substituted therefor. This air blast blows the fia of the wrapper down upon the curved one. 10 of the tension plate 9, and the paste on the wrapper sets up a tendency for the flog" to adhere to said curved end. This tendency is not sufficient to cause the wrapper or fin to adhere perinunentiy to the curved end of the tension piste, but is suiiicient to cause a dragging action on the flag as the bunch roiling mechanism rotates the bunch and the is wound around the head oi said bunch. The air blast sutiicient force to transfer the flag of the wrapper from the wrapper support to the tension plate quickly enough to prevent any wrinkling of the ting, and thereafter the tendency of tlie flag to adhere to the tension plate is suiiicient to prevent wrinkling of said ting. Control oi the wraoper lag is thus maintained hi: very simple mechanism coopersting with the paste upon the wrapper flog itseif.

Qhsnges and variations may be mode in the structure or means of which the 1Z1V-Sntion is carried into eiiect. The invention therefore is not to he restricted to the precise details of the structure shown and described.

What is eisinied is:

i. in a cigar wrapping niecherlsrn,

combination with e hunch roiiing mocha nisni, of o. wrapper support provided with means for hoiding s wrapper in outspread condition thereon, said mechanism and said support having a relative crossing I11OV ment whereby a wrapper is delivered by the support to a hunch in said mechanism, at wrapper tension plate, and means associated with the rear end of the support and operative when said end is adjacent said late for transferring the flag of the wrapper rroin the support to the piste.

:2. in e cigar wrapping mechanism, the combination with a. hunch rolling mechanism, of a suction wrapper support, ssid mechanism ondsaid suppom haying o, rcls-= tive crossing movement whereby a wrapper is delivered by the support; to a. hunch in said mechanism, a wrapper tension plate, and sir blast mechanism connected with the rear end of the support and operative when said end is adjacent said plate for hlowing the flag of the wrapper from the support to the piste,

3. in e cigar wrapping mechanism, the combination with o hunch rolling meche nism, of e suction wrapper support, said mechanism and said support having o rei tive crossing movement whereby a wrapper is delivered by the support to e hunch in said mechanism, s wrapper tension piste provided with on 116. downwardly curved and extending approximately to the exis oi said hunch, and oil blast mechanism con= nected with the rear end of the support end operative when said end is adjacent soid piste tor hiowing the dog of the wrapper from the support to the curved end or t c plate.

-i-, in e cigar wreppingmechenism, the comninotion with e hunch rolling mechsnim, of u suction wrapper support adopted to support it wrapper the rear or dog end of which is supplied with paste, seid mechanism and said support having" a relative crowing increment whereby e wrapper is deiivered by the support to s. hunch in said mechanism, a wrapper tension piste provided with on end downwardiy curved and extendinw epproiriinoteiy to the axis of said hundi, end sir biast mechanism connected with the rear end of the support and operet-ive'when said end is edjocent seid piste for hiowing the posted flag or the wrapper from the support to the piate, whereby the tendency of the do of the wrapper to adhere to the curved en oft the plate maintains the some in outspreed condition as it is dragged over the curved end and wound shoot the heed of e hunch.

in a cigar wrapping mecheninn, t e combination with a wrapper support having on internei suction cheneher, of sir i mechanism connected with the resr per der ves .3 moromen the flag end of the wrapper from thesupsaid support and operative near the end port. of the Wrapper delivering movement to blow 6. In a cigar wrapping mechanism, the the flag end of the wrapper from the sup- 10 combination with a wrapper support proport. 5 vided with means for holding a wrapper in In testimony whereof, I have signed my outspreed condition thereon, of air blast name to this specification; mechanism connected with the rear end of GUSTAV ANDERSON. 

